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Saturday, April 19, 2014

How to pronounce Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The oldest living winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - is dead. His name is being pronounced wrongly by most channels. It is not gab-real. It is garb-re-elle. 

His full name is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is pronounced as 

garb-re-elle gahr-see-yeah mar-kess (like in confess) {Using respelling technique}
gaabriiel gaarsiiaa maarkes {using the pronunciation key}
गाब्रियेल गार्सीया मारकेस {using Devanagari}

His pet name was pronounced as garbo or गाबो 

He was born in Aracataca in Colombia. The name is pronounced as ah-rah-kuh-tucker (soft t)
आराकअतका 

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